日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-nine LENVOI There isnt really any more to say about things. They got Father Lavigny and the other man just as they were going to board a steamer atBeyrouth. Sheila Reilly married young Emmott. I think that will be good for her. Hes no door-ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-eight JOURNEYS END Poirot looked round. Every eye was now fixed upon him. There had been a certain relaxationaslackening of tension. Now the tension suddenly returned. There was something coming .?.?. something .?.?. Poirots voice, quiet and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-seven BEGINNING OF A JOURNEY Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim. That is the Arab phrase used before starting out on a journey. Ehbien, we too start on a journey. A journey into the past. A journey into the strange places of thehuman soul. I dont... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-six NEXT IT WILL BE ME! It was rather horrible. Dr.?Leidner looked as though he were going to faint and I felt a bit sickmyself. Dr.?Reilly examined it with professional gusto. No fingerprints, I presume? he threw out. No fingerprints. Dr.?Re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-five SUICIDE OR MURDER? I hadnt time to ask Poirot what he meant, for Captain Maitland was calling up to us and asking usto come down. We hurried down the stairs. Look here, Poirot, he said. Heres another complication. The monk fellow is miss... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-four MURDER IS A HABIT We all went to bed early that night. Miss?Johnson had appeared at dinner and had behaved more orless as usual. She had, however, a sort of dazed look, and once or twice quite failed to take in whatother people said to h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-three I GO PSYCHIC The funeral was, I thought, a very affecting affair. As well as ourselves, all the English people inHassanieh attended it. Even Sheila Reilly was there, looking quiet and subdued in a dark coat andskirt. I hoped that she wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-two DAVID EMMOTT, FATHER LAVIGNY AND A DISCOVERY Turning abruptly away, Carey strode off with long, angry strides. Poirot sat looking after him and presently he murmured: YesI see. .?.?. Without turning his head he said in a slightly louder v... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-one MR.?MERCADO, RICHARD CAREY They work in two separate places, I see, said Poirot, halting. Mr.?Reiter had been doing his photography on an outlying portion of the main excavation. Alittle distance away from us a second swarm of men were co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty MISS?JOHNSON, MRS. ?MERCADO, MR.?REITER I dont mind confessing that the idea came as a complete shock to me. Id never thought ofassociating Miss?Johnson with the letters. Mrs.?Mercado, perhaps. But Miss?Johnson was a reallady, and so self-con... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Nineteen A NEW SUSPICION We couldnt say any more just then because Dr.?Reilly came in, saying jokingly that hed killedoff the most tiresome of his patients. He and M.?Poirot settled down to a more or less medical discussion of the psychology andment... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Eighteen TEA AT DR.?REILLYS Before leaving, Poirot made a round of the expedition house and the outbuildings. He also asked afew questions of the servants at second handthat is to say, Dr.?Reilly translated the questionsand answers from English to A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Seventeen THE STAIN BY THE WASHSTAND Mrs.?Leidners body had been taken to Hassanieh for the postmortem, but otherwise her room hadbeen left exactly as it was. There was so little in it that it had not taken the police long to go overit. To the right... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Sixteen THE SUSPECTS Dr.?Leidner sprang to his feet. Impossible! Absolutely impossible! The idea is absurd! Mr.?Poirot looked at him quite calmly but said nothing. You mean to suggest that my wifes former husband is one of the expedition and that sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Fifteen POIROT MAKES A SUGGESTION Dr.?Reilly had risen from his seat. When everyone had gone out he carefully closed the door. Then, with an inquiring glance at Poirot, he proceeded to shut the window giving on the courtyard. The others were already... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Fourteen ONE OF US? There was a little pauseand in it a wave of horror seemed to float round the room. I think it was at that moment that I first believed Dr.?Reillys theory to be right. I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with usliste... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirteen HERCULE POIROT ARRIVES I dont think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him lateron, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same! I dont know what Id imagine... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twelve I DIDNT BELIEVE. .?.?. No. No! Dr.?Leidner sprang up and walked up and down in an agitated manner. Its impossible what you say, Reilly. Absolutely impossible. One of us? Why, every singlemember of the expedition was devoted to Louise! A queer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Eleven AN ODD BUSINESS Im adhering as far as possible to telling only my personal part in the business. I pass over theevents of the next two hours, the arrival of Captain Maitland and the police and Dr.?Reilly. Therewas a good deal of general confu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Ten SATURDAY AFTERNOON Mrs.?Leidner told me her story on a Friday. On the Saturday morning there was a feeling of slight anticlimax in the air. Mrs.?Leidner, in particular, was inclined to be very offhand with me and rather pointedlyavoided any poss... 阅读全文>>